Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1887-04-02
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ages the plea Of tyrants, and the Yam
KEGS OF New England have turned it to
account in their own peculiar way.
They originated the plea that a pro-
tective tariff was necessity" to build
up their "infant" industries, TO put
money IN their pockets at the expense
OF everybody else.
They declared that slave labor was a
necessity" when they snapped New
England rum for negroes and imported
them into Massachusetts.
They afterwards discovered that it
was commercial necessity" to sell
their negroes to Southern men and in
vest the money in 4infant" industries
which these Southern men were taxed
to support.
They afterwards conceived the idea
that the negro, when owned by the
Southerner, was ga friend and broth
err" OF his former Puritan owner, and
hence it became necessity" to save
the souls OF those rigidly righteous hyp-
ocrites that the negro should be taken
away from his:master regardless OF the
constitution and the laws.
Having made the war necessity
TO frea tbe negro, they then declared
that being free, it was an absolute "nec-
essity" that he should be made citizen
and also be made voter.
Later on these necessitous cut.
throats declared that having been a
slave, and then freedman, and then a
voter, it became an unavoidable "neces-
sity" that he should be educated and
not desiring to be liberal, except with
other peoples money, they proposed
the Blair bill as the great moral Aneces
sity" Of the age.
Their great New England "necessi
w." lying back Of all this pretentioui
godliness, has always been "a protec
tive tariff" and they are cunning enough
to know that no man OF reasonable com
mon sense can favor such measures a.
the Blair bill without favoring a tariff
high enough to keep all overfowin,
treasury from which every politlcs
missionary can pay premiums TO hi
converts
Politicians have made this education
question Rhobby and held up before
the eyes of the people the glittering
generality of "free Schools" to which
the children of the country may b,
sent while their parents (the voters
are relieved OF the necessity" OF payini
taxes.
The picture is, at first glance, an at
tractive one, but who pays all this boun
ty for schools buildings and for teach
ers? Does the money come like tn
mama on which We are told the Israel
ties were fed during their journe,
through the wilderness, or is it derived
, from villainous tariff which take
every stitch of clothing worn by tn
school children and by their parent
: in their humble country homes?
Yet these tariff evangelists tell tn
people that the Blair bill is "necessi
, ty," because it exempts them from tax
alton and at the same time educate
their children, while it is current fac
!, that the free school system in the coun
try districts is failure and as decep
tive as a wet-weather spring whic
drives up in the heat OF Summer, whel
tpure water is necessity"
These political missionaries promise
e the negro "forty acres and mule,
o for his vote, but they failed to delive
), the property, and now they turn an
make sweeping bid for the entir
It southern vote, both white and black, b
$ proclaiming that education shall be q
: free as salvation, and that now sbidet
taxation, salvation and education, thes
three; but the greatest OF these is edr
cation.